February Family Birthdays, February 1 - 15

Is your birthday coming soon? Maybe you share your special day with someone in our family who came before. Look below and see. Happy Birthday!

1 February    

1787    Nancy PERKINS was the second wife of Moses Brown. His first wife, Sarah ROBERTSON, died in 1810 in Georgia. She had four children. She was my 4th great grandmother. Nancy had seven children, 4 daughters and 3 sons.
1861    Euseba Fortenberry REGAN
1884    Clara Estella WOLF
     
2 February    

1805    Christian BROWN
1842    Samuel RITTER
1853    Samuel WOLF

1856    Sarah Euseba Elizabeth ELLZEY
1906    Otera PIERCE
 1915    Francis WEISBERG was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Frank Samuel Weisberg & Florence Gartner. He was my first cousin, once removed.  He was a furniture salesman at one time. Late in life he moved to Florida.

3 February    

1717    Maria Magdalena WOLF
1792    Jacob RITTER
1924    Harold Jay NEE was born in Ohio, the son of Roy Edward Nee and Isabell Esther Mark. He and his wife, Pauline, had four children.  He served in the US Army during World War II.

4 February    

1932    Dick Alvin PARKER was born in Ohio, the son of Ralph Alvin Parker & Nellie Irene Jolliff. Dick and his wife, Bonita, had three children.

5 February    

1810    Sarah BROWN was born in Georgia, daughter of Moses BROWN and Sarah ROBERTSON. She married Gasua Chapman Fortenberry. They had nine children. Sarah died in 1883 in Mississippi.
1890    Harvey Allen RITTER
1899    Nellie Lavinia MESSMORE
1928    Donald Ray BROPHY

6 February    

1886    Edward MESSMORE
1936    Loyal David NOTHSTEIN
1925    James Joseph COYLE was born in Connecticut, son of James Joseph Coyle & Madeline Herbst. He married Barbara Kozlak. They had three children.

7 February   

 1777    Moses BROWN was one of eight children of Edward BROWN. He died 27 February 1838 in Mississippi. He was my 4th great grandfather.
1828    Aderine Mary FAULK
1857    Barbary Ann RITTER
1880    James Benton MARK
1884    Lulu Mabel HAWK

8 February    

1775    Johan Jonas WOLF
1887    Catherine MULLANE was born in Ireland, was one of twelve children of Daniel Mullane and Brigid English. 
1890    Roger T. ELLZEY

9 February 

1819    Margaret BRUMFIELD was born in Louisiana, daughter of Willis BRUMFIELD and Nancy Virginia HOLMES. She married John Seaborn ALFORD, son of Jacob ALFORD and Frances SEABORN.
1920    Virginia Caroline MOORE

10 February  

1891    Infant Girl ALFORD was born in Mississippi, the 12th child of Needham Edwin ALFORD & Mary Luzina Stafford. The baby died on the day she was born.
1905    Homer Grant SHEETS

11 February  

1828    Henrietta C. RITTER
1883    Emaline Floy MOORE was born in Ohio, daughter of Peter Jonathan Moore & Caroline Louise Gruissy. On 14 February 1901 she married Arther Spice.

12 February 

1773    Adam WOLF
1797    Jonas MOYER
1825    Hollis Horton FORTENBERRY
1877    William M. MARK
1896    Earnest T. ELLZEY
1938    Peggy BROWN was the daughter of Hubert Allen BROWN & Freddie SMITH. She married George Alford. She was my father’s first cousin.
      
13 February   

 1840    William Franklin FORTENBERRY was born in Mississippi, son of Gasua Chapman Fortenberry & Sarah Brown.  He married Mariah B. Hall. He was known as ‘Black Frank’.
1852    H. K. FORTENBERRY
1872    Bernard COYLE
1895    Ralph William WOLF

14 February    

1804    George KRICK
1811    Eliza SMITH was born in Mississippi, one of thirteen children of Jeremiah SMITH & Joanna DILLON.  She died 6 April 1837, at the age of 26.
1860    Salena Lena BLADES
1910    Margaret Mary BRADY

15 February    

1839    Jesse A. BRUMFIELD
1879    Lemuel Q. FORTENBERRY
1904    Effie Margaret CARTER was born in Ohio, daughter of Frank CARTER & Sadie MAPES. She married James Everett MARK on 31 December 1924. They had 11 children.
1905    Floy Alma SPICE